Yes, they are called Jetboats and are the most common kind of pleasure boat now. Propellers can hit rocks or sandbanks or seaweed. So these boats are great. I owned one and used to go in the ocean and back into the Florida Everglades with it. Mine had inflatable sides and so it worked a couple of inches of water. If you put "Jetboats" in UA-cam or Google you can read about them. They power everything from highspeed racing boats to pleasurecraft that take 50 people. Maybe even larger ones I don't know. I just Googled it and the Valour-class frigate is a Jetboat. So that's a large warship using a diesel engine powering one waterjet as population.
@@AnyoneCanSee Thank you very much for sharing this, I looked up that South African warship and amazingly the technology allows the ship to be very fast, well-balanced and extremely quiet.
@@charlie1567 - You are welcome. Yep, when I wrote "maybe larger ones" I Googled "what is the largest boat powered by a waterjet". I was surprised as I thought it powered boats that were small and light enough to almost lift out of the water. I just tried searching again and there is also a 180m luxury superyacht called "Azzam" that uses water jet power. I didn't mention before that Jetskis are also powered by waterjets. The manoeuvrability of jetboats is far better as well. You can spin in a circle. Even my small one accelerated fast enough for waterskiing. Also, you don't injure animals like manatees in the Everglades. Practically everyone I saw had propeller cuts.
@@AnyoneCanSee great to see that a once only military technology profits today civilian life and is even beneficial for wildlife , I have never been to Florida but saw many documentaries and the manatees seem to be such friendly and peaceful animals plus such good moms. Have a great start to 2023 !
What a fun boat to own today!
Mortars on a patrol boat?
Nonsense.
Grenade launchers, instead.
I helped rebuild that exact boat. Rob used to work for me. Shout out from muskegon
Is that Jacuzzi technology still used in boats today? What an excellent invention for shallow waters.
Yes, they are called Jetboats and are the most common kind of pleasure boat now. Propellers can hit rocks or sandbanks or seaweed. So these boats are great. I owned one and used to go in the ocean and back into the Florida Everglades with it. Mine had inflatable sides and so it worked a couple of inches of water.
If you put "Jetboats" in UA-cam or Google you can read about them. They power everything from highspeed racing boats to pleasurecraft that take 50 people. Maybe even larger ones I don't know.
I just Googled it and the Valour-class frigate is a Jetboat. So that's a large warship using a diesel engine powering one waterjet as population.
@@AnyoneCanSee Thank you very much for sharing this, I looked up that South African warship and amazingly the technology allows the ship to be very fast, well-balanced and extremely quiet.
@@charlie1567 - You are welcome. Yep, when I wrote "maybe larger ones" I Googled "what is the largest boat powered by a waterjet". I was surprised as I thought it powered boats that were small and light enough to almost lift out of the water. I just tried searching again and there is also a 180m luxury superyacht called "Azzam" that uses water jet power. I didn't mention before that Jetskis are also powered by waterjets.
The manoeuvrability of jetboats is far better as well. You can spin in a circle. Even my small one accelerated fast enough for waterskiing. Also, you don't injure animals like manatees in the Everglades. Practically everyone I saw had propeller cuts.
@@AnyoneCanSee great to see that a once only military technology profits today civilian life and is even beneficial for wildlife , I have never been to Florida but saw many documentaries and the manatees seem to be such friendly and peaceful animals plus such good moms. Have a great start to 2023 !
96 thousand gallons a minuet sounds a bit much. Some of the biggest fire boats pump 18 to 20 thousand gallons a minute.
They probably meant 9600
@@08mario08 That is what I was thinking.
As soon as he said 96,000 Gallons Per Minute.....pretty sure he meant 9,600 GPM....ready somewhere that said 10k GPM.
Yes. 'Nam 2 please......
Jeremy Clarkson rebuild one for The Grand tour....
Somebody really needs to learn how to speak the word Muskegon!
First
What a pathetic existence if that's what gives you a dopamine hit.
@@michiganlineman357 what